About this episode

Shannon Miller shares her journey as a two-time Olympic gold medalist and discusses key lessons on achieving greatness and resilience.

Shannon Miller is one of the greatest gymnasts in American history and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. Shannon led the Magnificent Seven to the United States' first-ever Olympic women's gymnastics team gold in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Shannon joins Adam to share her journey and her best lessons and advice. Shannon and Adam discuss a wide range of topics: attaining greatness and peak performance, goal setting, developing a winning mindset, leadership and coaching, resilience, performing under pressure, and much more.

People in this episode

Host: Adam Mendler

Guest: Shannon Miller

Topics covered

• leadership
• gymnastics
• Olympic gold medalist
• peak performance
• goal setting
• resilience
• performing under pressure

Keywords

• Shannon Miller
• Olympic gold medalist
• gymnastics
• leadership
• goal setting
• resilience
• performance

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Organizations: Magnificent Seven

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